Boyko Borissov

Bulgaria's leading party, GERB, has said it will not support either of its former coalition partners - the Reformist Bloc, or the Patriotic Front - if the President mandates them to form a new government within the current parliament.

The party of outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has made a U-turn in its attitude to a possible new cabinet led by the nationalist Patriotic Front (PF) coalition.

GERB will not back any new government within the current legislature, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, who heads the conservative party's faction in Parliament, has explained.

The prospect of forming a nationalist-led cabinet within the current Parliament has divided opinions in Bulgaria, with the biggest party itself split over the move.

Bulgaria's Military Prosecutor's Office said on Tuesday that it has charged an unnamed number of defence ministry employees with deliberate dereliction of duty which cost the state over two million leva (around a million euros).

A nationalist party leader in Bulgaria has declared his readiness to become Prime Minister if the coalition he co-chairs manages to set up a government.

Bulgaria will move migrants who clashed with police at an accommodation camp to closed-type facilities and hopes to start extraditing some to their native Afghanistan next month, outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said on Saturday.

They will be divided into groups of 50-100 people and isolated in the old barracks, daily newspaper 24 Chasa quotes him as saying.

Around 300 migrants have been arrested following a riot in Bulgaria's largest migrant center in Harmanli, as Greece calls on European union member states to speed relocation efforts after a tragic accident killed two migrants in an overcrowded Lesbos camp, Voice of America reported on Saturday.

The riot in the refugee camp in Harmanli has been coordinated with similar disturbances in Italy, Greece and France, announced the State Agency for National Security (DANS).

Outgoing PM Boyko Borisov has left for Harmanli again, reported Trud.

Early this morning, he called an operative meeting of the Interior Ministry in relation to the escalation of tension among the refugees. Borisov had to postpone his planned visit to Hungary.

Outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov postponed the planned meeting with Viktor Orban in Hungary due to the escalation of the situation in the refugee camp in Harmanli, announced the Government information service.